10 Albums You Can't Be Without

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  1. weirdo12

    weirdo12 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Toronto
    Jeff Beck - Truth
    Mott the Hoople - Mott
    Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
    Joel Plaskett - Ashtray Rock
    Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
    Elton John - Madman Across The Water
    Todd Rundgren - Hermit of Mink Hollow
    Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
    Neil Young - Tonights The Night
    Boston - Don't Look Back
     
  2. stonedhenge

    stonedhenge Forum Resident

    Nick Drake - Pink Moon
    Stephen Stills - Manassas
    Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
    Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    Fairport Convention - Liege And Lief
    Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
    Jethro Tull - Aqualung
    Little Feat - The Last Record Album
    Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild

    That's off the top of my head today, but tomorrow could be a completely different list.
     
  3. culabula

    culabula Unread author.

    Location:
    Belfast, Ireland
    Ijahman/Haile I Hymn Chapter 1
    Animals/Pink Floyd
    '75/The Bothy Band
    Sound d'Afrique/Various
    Thick as a Brick/Jethro Tull
    Kaya/Bob Marley
    Blonde on Blonde/Bob Dylan
    The Beatles/The Beatles
    Selected Jigs, Reels and Songs/Dé Danann
    John Barleycorn Must Die/Traffic
     
  4. culabula

    culabula Unread author.

    Location:
    Belfast, Ireland
    Let's hear is for Silly Sisters -starring Nic Jones and Andy Irvine !
     
  5. RelayerNJ

    RelayerNJ Forum Resident

    Location:
    Whippany, NJ
    Ha! You lived without Blackstar for your whole life up to January.
     
  6. john lennonist

    john lennonist There ONCE was a NOTE, PURE and EASY...

    I can't be without 15... limiting this to one per band:


    Beatles "White Album"

    "Who's Next"

    Jethro Tull "Benefit"

    Neil Young "On the Beach"

    Santana "Abraxas"

    " Something Else by the Kinks"

    Derek & the Dominos “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs”

    The Doors “Strange Days”

    Grateful Dead “American Beauty”

    Led Zeppelin “IV”

    Nirvana “Nevermind”

    Pink Floyd “The Dark Side of the Moon”

    The Rolling Stones “Sticky Fingers”

    A Dean Martin compilation

    A Howlin' Wolf compilation

    .
     
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  7. tomstockman

    tomstockman Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Shanghai
    I could live forever so long as I had

    Kanye West - Yeezus
    Art of the Fugue - Evgeni Koroliov
    Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: The Royal Albert Hall Concert
    Steely Dan - Katy Lied
    The Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
    Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Dancer With Bruised Knees
    Against Me! - Acoustic EP
    Fugazi - Repeater + 3 Songs
    Tom Waits - Bone Machine
    and Have Moicy

    and it couldn't hurt to have a blu-ray for Stop Making Sense
     
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  8. PhilBorder

    PhilBorder Senior Member

    Location:
    Sheboygan, WI
    Gene Clark's "White Light' x 10
     
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  9. RHCD

    RHCD Reverend Bong

    in random order

    Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
    The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
    William Orbit - Strange Cargo III
    David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
    Fluke - The Techno Rose of Blighty
    Supertramp - Crime of the Century
    AC/DC - Powerage
    Wilson Pickett - The Wicked Pickett
    Little Richard - The Rill Thing
    - unfortunately I need to choose ten more out of the wealth of great soul and R&B from Stax, Chess etc. John Lee Hooker, Otis Redding, Albert King, can't whittle it down...
     
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  10. Tree of Life

    Tree of Life Hysteria

    Location:
    Captiva Island, FL
    I'll play along and in no particular order:

    Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
    Pink Floyd-DarkSide Of The Moon
    AC/DC-Back In Black
    Aerosmith-ROCKS
    Aerosmith-Toys In The Attic
    Def Leppard-Pyromania
    Def Leppard-Hysteria
    KISS-Alive
    KISS-Destroyer
    Bryan Adams-Reckless

    Man, I cannot believe I left off Exile On Main Street Arghhhhhhh!

    I need at least 25 more slots
     
  11. Gaslight

    Gaslight ⎧⚍⎫⚑

    Location:
    Northeast USA
    I took the OP's question as "10 albums you can't be without...today". Because in a real-world sense, that's the question...it's not like I'll ever find myself on a deserted island and have to pick only 10 albums until I die.

    With that in mind, those 10 albums are what I currently carry around with me / get the most playtime day-to-day. I can live without hearing Abbey Road for a few days, at this point in my life. :)
     
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  12. rodentdog

    rodentdog Senior Member

    today in no order
    The Tubes--Remote Control
    Todd Rundgren--Nearly Human
    Steely Dan--Pretzel Logic
    Oingo Boingo--Boingo Alive
    Norman Brown--Better Days Ahead
    Supertramp--Crime of the Century
    Buffalo Springfield--Again
    Brian Tarquin--High Life
    David Benoit--Waiting for Spring
    Neil Young--S/T
    Count Basic--Movin' in the Right Direction
    okay 11
     
  13. mr.datsun

    mr.datsun Incompletist

    Location:
    London
    The Faust Tapes
    The Way Out
    Ege Bamyasi
    The Henry Cow Leg End
    Pop Tatari
    White Light/White Heat
    The Soft Machine Volume 2
    Trout Mask Replica
    The Velvet Underground & Nico
    Man Who Sold The World

    that's ten, but not the only ten.
     
  14. footprintsinthesand

    footprintsinthesand Reasons to be cheerful part 1

    Location:
    Dutch mountains
    Limited to max 1 per artist; only albums that can be spun front to back repeatedly...

    David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
    XTC - English Settlement
    Prince - Emancipation (disk #2 of 3)
    Rolling Stones - Black And Blue
    Joe Cocker - Sheffield Steel (with bonus)
    Steely Dan - Gaucho (5.1)
    Robert Palmer - Drive
    Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River In Reverse
    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (5.1)
    Lou Reed - Transformer
     
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  15. bobbycat

    bobbycat Forum Resident

    Location:
    germany
    Dylan Highway 61
    Kinks Village green preservation society
    Television Marquee moon
    Meters Rejuvenation
    Wes Montgomery Full house
    Jim Hendrix Winterland box
    JJ Cale Troubadour
    John Cale Fragments of a rainy season
    Junior Wells It's my life, baby
    Can Soundtracks


    Tomorrow the List would likely change
     
  16. Davey

    Davey NP: Hania Rani/Dobrawa Czocher ~ Inner Symphonies

    Location:
    SF Bay Area, USA
    Some days, some weeks, and even some months the list of what I can't seem to do without anymore looks kinda like this ...

    Songs: Ohia [1999] Axxess & Ace
    Songs: Ohia [2000] Ghost Tropic
    Songs: Ohia [2000] The Lioness
    Songs: Ohia [2001] Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasma
    Songs: Ohia [2002] Didn't It Rain
    Songs: Ohia [2003] Magnolia Electric Co
    Jason Molina [2003] The North Star Blues Session *
    Magnolia Electric Co. [2003] What Comes After The Blues
    Magnolia Electric Co. [2006] Fading Trails
    Magnolia Electric Co. [2007] Black Ram
    Magnolia Electric Co. [2007] Nashville Moon

    Can't think of anyone else in modern times that has a run of records I care about anywhere close to this one.

    * not a record, just a radio show download, but as great as they come
     
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  17. Bemagnus

    Bemagnus Music is fun

    Actually there is no album I could not live without but there are many that makes life more fun. Here are some:
    Ry Coodeer-Bop til you drop
    Joni Mitchell-Blue
    Shelby Lynne-I am Shelby Lynne
    Sir Douglas quintet-Mendocino
    Paul McCartney-Ram
    The Clash-Londons Calling
    James Carr-the singles collection
    Aretha Franklin-live at Fillmore
    The Kinks-Village Green Preservation society
    Bob Marley-Legend
     
  18. icorem

    icorem Forum Resident

    Location:
    Tel Aviv, Israel
    In no particular order :

    Bowie - Ziggy
    Lou reed - Berlin and New York
    Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones and Rain dogs
    Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
    Miles - KOB
    Mingus - Mingus ah um
    Dylan - blood on the tracks
    Beatles - Sgt. pepper
     
  19. RelayerNJ

    RelayerNJ Forum Resident

    Location:
    Whippany, NJ
    Yeah, it's a strange thread title. I think it's more like another top 10 based on the picks. Pick's like Who's Next--I've heard it so many times, I'm good living the rest of my life without it.
     
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  20. FJC1966

    FJC1966 The Prestonian

    Location:
    Lancashire, U.K.
    The Jayhawks - SOUND OF LIES
    Joni Mitchell - BLUE
    U2 - ACHTUNG BABY
    Elton John - TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION
    Crosby, Stills & Nash - CROSBY, STILLS & NASH
    Neil Young - HARVEST
    Miles Davis -KIND OF BLUE
    The Beach Boys - PET SOUNDS
    The Beatles - REVOLVER
    The Who - WHO'S NEXT
     
  21. Gaslight

    Gaslight ⎧⚍⎫⚑

    Location:
    Northeast USA
    Could be. I could never pick 10, in that case. Luckily I don't have to. ;)
     
  22. Rufus rag

    Rufus rag Forum Resident

    Location:
    UK
    Brain Salad Surgery-ELP
    Fragile-YES
    Songs from the Big Chair-Tears for Fears
    Ooh La La-The Faces
    Rising-Rainbow
    Lights Out-UFO
    Schools Out-Alice Cooper
    Scenes from a memory-Dream Theater
    Fish out of Water-Chris Squire
    Bandolier-Budgie
     
  23. Bananas&blow

    Bananas&blow It's just that demon life has got me in its sway

    Location:
    Pacific Beach, CA
    I'm the second. However I've spent thousands of hours more listening to the dead.
     
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  24. jggrimes

    jggrimes Forum Resident

    Location:
    Kentucky
    Arif Mardin - Journey
    Quincy Jones - Walking In Space
    Nat Adderley - Calling Out Loud
    Soft Machine - Third
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
    My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
    Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream
    Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
    Miles Davis - Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970)
     
  25. Yost

    Yost “It’s only impossible until it’s not”

    Only 10? That's a hard one…

    • ABBA, The Album
    • Erykah Badu, Baduism
    • Kate Bush, Hounds of Love
    • Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
    • Peter Gabriel, So
    • Isaac Hayes, Hot Buttered Soul
    • Jean Michel Jarre, The Concerts in China
    • Madonna, Ray of Light
    • Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones, New York City
    • Massive Attack, Mezzanine
    • Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
    • Prince, Purple Rain
    • Tears for Fears, Songs from the Big Chair

    Yeah, I know, I cheated. And I already had to leave out so many great albums…
     
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